Broadback wrote:
I wish to copy files from DVDs to my computer. Sadly they are labelled
trck1 etc on the discs, so I cannot copy more than one. Is there away
around this apart from laboriously rebelling each individually? TIA

I have two samples in this picture.

https://i.postimg.cc/DyfxGD5K/cdaudio-vs-dvdvideo.gif

The top picture is a CDDA Audio Disc (600-800MB).
That's the one that has "track" as the name.

The bottom picture is a DVD Video dual layer [hollywood] (up to 9GB or so)

The top one needs a ripper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_ripper === VLC media player, down near the bottom

VLC does one track at a time. Yikes!

https://www.techwalla.com/articles/h...p-cds-with-vlc

OK, let's try this one. Exact Audio Copy has a good reputation.

https://www.fosshub.com/Exact-Audio-Copy.html

https://www.fosshub.com/Exact-Audio-...wl=eac-1.5.exe

Name: eac-1.5.exe
Size: 5,111,512 bytes (4991 KiB)
SHA1: F4B9DA1ABC0ECFCD7466EC903BF87BBA51872B87

Results: All tracks in one shot, but a 40 minute CD takes 10 minutes to rip.
EAC slows the drive down, if there are errors. It spotted at
least two recoverable errors on my media.

https://i.postimg.cc/fyTT5sRY/EAC.gif

EAC has many fancy features, such as finding a set of files
with the same checksum, in some database. It can also find
better names for the tracks.

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If you made your own DVD Video (I have a total of 3 discs),
the .vob on those are not encrypted, and just copy.
VLC could play those.

If the title was purchased at the store, a Hollywood title,
those are protected by CSS (and many other protectors,
too numerous to mention). You need a DeCSS at a minimum to
copy off the stuff there, and put it in a format it can be
used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego...opy_protection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Scramble_System

A google search like this, will give the names of tools.

site:videohelp.com dvd copy

https://www.videohelp.com/software/sections/dvd-to-dvd [scroll down]

You can test VLC and see what it can do. It's supposed
to at some point, had libdvdcss in it. Use the most
recent version (3.0.8) since older versions couldn't
play the video without artifacts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

https://www.winxdvd.com/dvd-ripper/how-to-rip-dvd.htm

You should untick the "capture menu" option, because when
I tried that with my sample DVD, the capture went into a
loop (kept capturing the 2 minute menu over and over).

With the "Capture menu" disabled, it captured the first
selection (1 hour 48 minutes) and converted that to a
1.1GB MP4. It then started capturing the other selections
on the DVD, but the encoder stopped and no more data was
added to the output file.

I expect with some trouble, you could get it to capture
the second selection and so on.

VLC will use some hardware acceleration on your computer,
it will decode the video with NVDEC or similar. But it chose
to recompress the movie with the CPU. It took 5GB of
files off the DVD and made the 1.1GB output from it. I think
the processing rate was about 10x realtime or so. A 2 hour
movie would be 12 minutes, if that works out. I'd rather
see it use the video card for both decode and re-encode,
but maybe some day.

I had something on Linux that did a better job. I don't
remember what the output format was, and I think I chucked
the files (since I can always decrypt it again).

http://al.howardknight.net/?STYPE=ms...nt-email.me%3E

Paul